The Best WordPress Plugins That Everyone Should Be Using

With over thirty thousand WordPress plugins listed in the official WordPress plugin directory alone, it is no surprise that WordPress users are a little unsure about what plugins they should be using. There are just so many to choose from; which explains why there are so many plugin top lists online.

Most plugin lists focus on which plugins are the best, though the plugins which are listed as the best usually have the most features.

Today, I would like to share with you a collection of plugins that are not necessarily The Best. This is more of a collection of what could be considered essential plugins, and not plugins that offer the most features.

For the most part, these plugins address issues that are inherent in the core version of WordPress.

Essential Functionality

Everyone uses WordPress in different ways. That is why the developers of WordPress have made the core version of their platform so lightweight. This allows users to add features and customize WordPress in their own way using plugins.

However, I do feel that there are a lot of ways in which the core version of WordPress can be improved. The following plugins add functionality that I feel is missing from WordPress.

If you use WordPress to develop blogs, you will know that blog posts do not always publish at the times they were scheduled. This problem rears its ugly head every now and then, and unfortunately, WordPress does not email you to let you know that a scheduled post has not been published. You will only see that a post has missed its schedule publication time when you log in and see an error about the post missing its schedule.

One way to fix this problem is to install the aptly named WP Missed Schedule Fix Failed Future Posts. The plugin creates a cron that searches for scheduled posts that missed publication and then ensures they are published. It works well and does not affect your server’s performance.

Widgets can be used to place content in a variety of places such as your sidebar, header, footer, and home page. By default, a widget will show in a widget zone in all areas of your website. This is not always ideal. You may want widgets to only be displayed on certain areas of your website.

For example, let’s say you have a basic HTML widget that displays at the top of your sidebar. This widget would display a photograph of yourself and an invitation to readers to visit your about page and learn more about you. There would be no need to display this widget on the about page itself. You can therefore stop the widget from being displayed by using (i.e. !is_page( ‘about’)).

You could also use it to remove advertisements from your member area and remove recent posts from pages.

Widget Logic lets you control what areas of your website widgets are displayed.

Scheduling posts in advance is essential if you want to run a successful blog. Sadly, the default post area in WordPress is not practical for doing this.

With Editorial Calendar, I can easily view the upcoming posts for that month. If something urgent comes up that I need to cover, I can simply drag and drop one of the scheduled posts into another day or week. It also lets you quickly edit titles, change content, change scheduled times, and more.

WordPress does not have any built-in functionality for hiding pages. This can be a problem as there are certain pages that you do not want to appear when someone searches your website, searches your archives, or searches your website through a search engine.

PC Hide Pages can be used to hide pages that you do not want indexed. I use it to hide the “Thanks for Subscribing” message that is shown to new newsletter subscribers. I also use it to hide my eBook download page so that it is not indexed by Google.

The PC Hide Pages settings area displays a list of all your pages. All you have to do is select the pages you want to hide.

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WordPress does not allow you to modify existing . This means that you cannot allow contributors to upload images to posts or allow authors to publish pages. It greatly limits what you can do with WordPress.

User Role Editor is a fantastic plugin that I looked at closely in January. It gives you complete control over what users can see and do. It also lets you create custom user groups. This is very useful if you have have a lot of authors or members.

Members offers the same functionality as User Role Editor. The plugin can also be used to create a member website as it allows you to restrict content.

Both User Role Editor and Members allow you to change the capabilities of users and user groups.

The test widget that comes with WordPress is very useful, however it can only be used for text and HTML. The Enhanced Text Widget allows you to use additional languages such as CSS, Javascript, Flash, and PHP. It even allows you to use WordPress shortcodes.

The Enhanced Text Widget lets you use a wide range of programming languages on your website.

WordPress is not known for having great search functionality. Results are frequently irrelevant and out of date; which makes it difficult for readers to find the articles they are searching for.

The plugin ensures search results are ordered by relevance and offers many great features for visitors such as highlighting search terms, searching through comments, and searching with phrases. It is an effective way of resolving the limitations of WordPress’s limited search functionality.

Relevanssi allows you to specify how much weight is given to posts, comments, tags, and categories.

Spam & Security

Two battles that all WordPress users need to contend with on a daily basis are spam and website security. Even if your website has low traffic, you will still face spambots and hackers.

Protecting your website is not something that you can afford to be complacent about, therefore I recommend being proactive and strengthening your security from day one.

Along with the irrelevant , Akismet is the only plugin that comes packaged with every single version of WordPress. It is not a full proof solution for combatting spam, however it will block the majority of spam that your website attracts.

The plugin will check all of your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam. It sometimes get things wrong, so you need to check your spam folder regularly to be sure that legitimate comments are not being marked as spam (which can frustrate real commenters).

Akismet will try and improve its accuracy over time by learning which comments were spam and which were false positives.

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Unfortunately, it is not always enough. If you find that Akismet is still letting a lot of spam through, you may want to install a plugin such as Better WordPress reCAPTCHA or Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin to make it more difficult for spammers.

Better WordPress reCAPTCHA uses Google’s anti-spam solution to display an image that spambots cannot decipher. It integrates with Akismet and Contact Form 7 too. If you do not want to inconvenience your commenters by asking them to complete a reCAPTCHA image, you may want to consider Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin. The plugin will add a checkbox to the comment area that asks them to confirm they are not a spammer. Simple, yet effective.

A reCAPTCHA form can drastically reduce comment spam.

Other good anti-spam solutions to try include , , and .

Accessing your admin area by guessing your administrator username and password remains a popular way for hackers to infiltrate your website. One way to discourage unauthorized users from logging into your website is Login LockDown.

The plugin will block repeated attempts from a given IP range and lock them out for a defined period of time. This will effectively stop hackers from accessing your website with brute force password discovery.

Login Lockdown can limit the number of login attempts and lockout users with failed attempts for minutes, hours,days, or weeks.

Lockdown WP Admin helps you hide the admin area and the WordPress login page. Anyone who tries to view these pages will be presented with a 404 page error message. It also lets you rename the login URL.

Activating this plugin makes it very difficult for any unauthorized people from accessing your admin area. You will still be able to login yourself using your unique login URL.

Additional Website Security

There are advanced security plugins available for WordPress that can strengthen your website in a number of ways. They can scan files and scan your database for unauthorized injections, address common WordPress vulnerabilities, and monitor your website on a daily basis.

Below is a list of four of the best advanced security plugins for WordPress. To ensure that your website performance is not affected, it is normally best to use only one of these plugins. However, it may be worth activating each one and checking whether the plugin finds a security concern that the others may not. You can then leave one activated to perform security scans on a regular basis.

– Sucuri Security is a malware scanner that detects malware, spam injections, website errors, and more. It can prevent phishing attempts, PHP mailing scripts, IP cloaking, malicious iframes and malicious redirects. The plugin can also harden the configuration of your website. It can remove the WordPress version, protect the uploads directory, disable the plugin and theme editor, and restrict access to the wp-contents and wp-includes directories.

– Acunetix WP Security can address security concerns that are caused in the core version of WordPress, such as the removal of update information for non-admins, disabling of error reporting, and the protection of your admin area.

– Recently renamed from Better WP Security, iThemes Security can address a lot of common WordPress security vulnerabilities such as renaming the admin account, changing the database prefix from wp_, and changing the user id for admin from 1. It can also monitor your website files for unauthorized changes and enforce strong passwords on all users.

Backing Up WordPress

It is vital that you back up WordPress on a regular basis. Hosting companies tend to keep their backup servers in the same datacenter as their main servers, therefore you need to ensure that you make additional backups yourself.

There are many great backup plugins available for WordPress. Below you will find four of the best:

– VaultPress is a premium backup service from Automattic (the developers of WordPress). From only $5 per month, they will back up your website on a daily basis. The service features one click backups and restores; and you can download backup files at any time. I use VaultPress to backup all my websites as it is cheap, reliable, and only takes a minute to configure. Check out my review of VaultPress for more information about the service.

– Developed by iThemes, BackUpBuddy is a premium backup plugin that allows you to back up to Amazon, Dropbox, Rackspace, FTP, and more. Backups and restores are straight forward. The plugin costs a one off fee of $80 for two websites, $100 for ten websites, or $150 for unlimited websites. While I do love VaultPress, there is no getting away from the fact that BackupBuddy is a more cost effective solution in the long term.

– An easy to use free backup solution that has a simple backup and restoration process. It supports backups to Dropbox, Amazon, Rackspace, Google Drive, FTP, email, and more. It has some cool features such as encrypting your database for additional security and the option of splitting large websites into multiple archives.

– A free plugin that lets you schedule regular backups to your Dropbox account. It will backup all website files and your website database. A couple of extensions are available for between $9-$19 that offer additional functionality; however the free plugin works well on its own. Unfortunately, it does not have any restore functionality.

VaultPress is a reliable solution that offers easy backups and restores.

Speed & Performance

A slow web page can drive visitors away and hurt your search engine rankings. The following plugins will help you reduce the size of your web pages and make pages load quicker for visitors.

WP Defer Loading will defer the loading of Javascript on your website and improve the speed of web pages. You should see your website page loading time drop after activating it.

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Last month I spoke about how the can significantly increase the size of your website database.

WP-Optimize is a great little plugin that can help reduce the size of your database and make your website run more efficiently by removing post revisions, auto draft posts, and comments, that are older than two weeks.

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions works in a similar way. I used the plugin to .

WP-Optimize will help you reduce the size of your database; which in turn will speed up your website response times.

WP Smush.It utilizes Yahoo’s API to optimize your images in a number of ways. It will strip meta data from JPEG images, optimize JPEG compression, convert some GIF images to PNGs, and remove unused colours from indexed images.

Be warned, however, that the plugin can put strain on your server CPU when it is optimizing a backlog of images.

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Installing a cache plugin will make the biggest difference to your website speed. The two leading cache plugins for WordPress are W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache. They allow you to create static HTML copies of your pages that are displayed to visitors, which drastically reduces the time it takes to load a page.

Both of these plugins allow you to optimize your website in additional ways. They support browser caching and minify and HTTP compression of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and feeds. They can also be used in conjunction with a Content Delivery Network (CDN), such as , to reduce the page loading time of your pages even further.

Search Engine Optimization

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Both WordPress SEO by Yoast and All In One SEO Pack will improve your website’s search engine presence.

I recently looked at which plugin was best for SEO. A few Carpetcleaninghaddontownship blog readers were unhappy that I did not choose a winner; however the truth is that there is not much between these plugins when it comes to adding essential SEO functionality to your website.

They both allow you to configure meta information for posts, pages, and social media services. They also allow you to create XML sitemaps. WordPress SEO by Yoast has many other tools such as breadcrumbs, RSS editing, and bulk title and description editors. Some of these additional features are included in the premium version of All In One SEO Pack, some are not. Though I believe your decision on which one to use still comes down to which interface you like best.

You will not be disappointed with either plugin as they both add SEO functionality that is missing from the core version of WordPress.

Both WordPress SEO and All in One SEO Pack allow you to modify page titles and meta information.

WordPress SEO by Yoast and All In One SEO Pack can be used to create an XML sitemap for your website. However, if you want full control over what is contained with your sitemap, I recommend using Google XML Sitemaps.

The plugin allows you to choose exactly which parts of your website are included in your sitemap. Indexing frequencies and priorities can be specified. It also allows you to add additional pages that were not created using WordPress.

Google XML Sitemaps gives you complete control over what is listed in your website sitemap.

More Great Plugins to Consider

My original list of plugins for this article was longer, though many plugins cannot unfortunately be considered as essential. You will, however, find them useful.

Here is a quick look at some great plugins that nearly made the list:

or – Two of the best plugin solutions available for adding a contact form to your website. They have advanced features such as file uploads, eCommerce integration, and spam protection.

– Allows commenters to be updated of new comments. A fantastic plugin for those of you who are not using an alternative comment system.

– Replaces the older posts and newer posts links with a more user-friendly paging navigational interface.

– I shared with you all the best social media sharing plugins for WordPress last month. Yet the most common question I receive from Carpetcleaninghaddontownship blog readers is ‘What social media plugin is powering the floating bar on Carpetcleaninghaddontownship?’. The answer is: Smart Layers by AddThis.

– Allows you to track a lot of additional information on Google Analytics. For example, it can use custom variables to display traffic for authors, posts and pages, specific categories, and more.

– Allows you to automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments to other posts and pages from your website.

– An essential tool for affiliate marketers. It allows you to mask ugly affiliate URL’s and track the number of clicks to links.

– A whopping thirty two modules and counting. Jetpack adds a lot of functionality to your website including social media sharing, comments, related posts, and spelling and grammar correcting.

– Let’s you insert Google maps into your website using widgets or shortcodes.

I hope you have enjoyed this list of top WordPress plugins. With tens of thousands of WordPress plugins available online, it can be difficult to curate a list that includes everyone’s favorite essential plugins.

Thankfully, the discussion does not end with me.

I encourage you all to use the comment area below to share the plugins that you cannot live without 🙂

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By Kevin Muldoon

Kevin is our resident tutorial master. He has years of experience with WordPress, and is a professional blogger with a special interest in social media, internet marketing and web design.

169 Comments

Hello kevin,
A great article.
I need to share blog and projects in different sites.
I mean, I have created a multisite wordpress, with three sites that are different in appearance, but I want the same blog and projects, but each site has its independent blog.
I have not found a plugin for solve this problem.
Do you know any?

Kevin thanks so much for this great list. Using some – others to be. Biggest issue now tho is that my opt in box in side column and footer links, and my Addthis links don’t appear on mobile phones (eg my android with firefox) and other devices, despite site being responsive. Can you suggest a solution to ensure these features appear to all users – many thanks

This ET post has helped me more than the 2 hours of plugin research I did on other sites yesterday! Not joking at all. I love how the ET blog posts are so well-written. So many other WordPress related sites just want to get your hit on a search engine and don’t seem to care so much about the content quality.

One plugin I use on all my sites is WORDFENCE – free security plugin. Does a nice job. I am amazed at how many notices I get of people trying to get into my sites. To me, Wordfence and iTheme Security are must haves on all sites.

Great post and list. I would like to add “CopyRightPro” to this list. It prevents people from right-clicking and copying your website copy. While it is not a complete deterrent, if I make someone “work” a bit before they attempt to “borrow” my copy – so be it.

I am not sure how much of a deterrent that is because someone can just view the source. Plus this makes it a pain for legitimate visitors. I frequently quote articles that I reference in posts.

It is a difficult thing to balance. As you don’t want people to scrape your content, however you don’t want to ruin the experience for legitimate visitors either.

bb
April 16, 2014

Great secret of some essential plugins separated from the core. C’mon, this post should be for members only! I know some top bloggers may be seething right now for releasing this affection to ET readers. Thank you very much kevin. Please, can you tell nick to tweak this comment to have +1 thumbs and also edit option? (love wptavern comment edit option). More glorious days for WP, ET and its community.

P3 is a useful plugin. It’s a shame they have not updated it since 2012.

Marco
April 29, 2014

I was curious about the signup popup as well. What type of plugin do you use to do that? Thanks!

Nick Roach
April 29, 2014

I designed our subscribe popups myself 🙂 They aren’t available as plugin, but if there is enough interest we may turn them into something more official someday.

Marco
May 2, 2014

Thanks Nick! You can count me and Lindsay in :).
Amazing work — I just had to purchase the lifetime membership. You guys are incredibly talented, and I just wanted access to all your high quality stuff in the long term!

The plugins that are “essential” vary greatly depending on the type of site you’re building and what kind of hosting you have. Get good managed hosting and all the bloated, time and trouble-causing security and performance stuff becomes irrelevant. Possible exception: widget cache. Try WP Static Cache (simple) against W3TC and its infinite settings. Some developers will prefer Batcache.

I would always stress the need for a good backup solution. Though the reality is that if you have a ten page website that is never updated, you can simply back the website up one time and forget about it as you can restore it at any time.

Some good plugins in your list, including a lot I had not heard about.

When you are designing websites for plugins, do you always monitor the plugins you use and check how much resources they use etc?

Abdi
April 17, 2014

Hi there,
Great article, any good plugins to check which plugins are slowing down the website?

Great Article Kevin! This is exactly what I needed. Finding and using experimenting with new plug-ins can be very addicting but also time-consuming. I just love finding new plug-ins. There are many on here I was not aware of and you just saved me hours upon hours of time.

Your articles are great and I have a dedicated folder on my browser just for these WP resources and tips. Thanks for your contribution to the wp community (and all of us).

There are so many plugins you mention that I currently implement into all of the sites I own & build.
Yoast, W3 Cache & WP-Optimize are ones that stand out the most in my opinion. They have transformed not only the way I build sites, but more enhance their speed & localization.
Of course none of this would make me any success without help from Carpetcleaninghaddontownship & WordPress!

great informative article…awesome but most of plugins that i already have used and i have found problem with W3 Total cache that page not refreshed after deleting all cache… please suggest some tips according to the your best experiences……

Do delete the duplicate message. Another question: Do you recommend using these plugins within an ET theme? For example, I’ve found the contact form in the ET templates I have used thus far to be sufficient. Why would I want to use the Contact plugin listed?

I would like to change the article’s title to “The Best WordPress Article That Everyone Should Read”

Assuming this article is no.3. And assume your previous article is no.2. And assume your awaiting article “How to Choose best Hosting Company” is no. 1.
I would say:
Any beginner (just like me) reads 1,2, then 3 respectively, will be, definitely, upgraded from “Beginner Level” into “Wordpress Hosting Provider level”. At least this is my point of view Or my own way to say Thank you Kevin very much for this awesome, very helpful article.

great list Kevin, as always.. just to add to the caching plugin list is – WP fastest cache.. This is by far the easiest to use caching plugin and it really works well, in fact better than W3 Total or Super cache.. I have used it on several sites and it makes a really big impact on the loading time.

That’s a heck of a list.
I’m already using many of these plugins but I’m definitely going to add the one that defers JS loading since that seems to be the biggest bugbear when trying to speed up WordPress sites (particularly for mobile devices).
Huge thanks
Karl

I think every WordPress tutorial article I’ve ever read says to only use the most minimum number of plugins and to completely uninstall (rather than just deactivate) any plugins that you are not using at the moment.

On the other hand, I would love to install every plugin on your list, in addition to a few others, so I’m a bit confused about plugin advice…

It is good advice to not activate any plugins you are using, though the notion that you need to limit yourself to a certain number of plugins is wrong.

One plugin may add more code to your website than ten. It all comes down to how efficiently they are coded.

What part are you confused about? 🙂

Kevin

James
April 17, 2014

I cant figure out weather to use Sucuri Security – SiteCheck Malware Scanner or BulletProof Security to protect my website. BulletProof Security seems to have a higher rating on WordPress but I know you guys use Securi to audit your themes, do you think the Securi plugin is better than BulletProof Security? Thanks, James.

Why not use BulletProof security on a daily basis to monitor your website, but use Sucuri to scan your website as a once off. 🙂

Martin
April 17, 2014

Hi,

it is a good list. But I would mention that Relevanssi is only usable until the amount of Posts grow over 5000 or so. This Plugin starts to destroy your Site when it is getting bigger. The Tables in DB getting incredible big (I heard of one about 4GB!!) – in our case it has already 900MB – with over a million rows in the DB. The Plugin Author himself is saying: “I would not recommend using Relevanssi on large, high-traffic sites, as it is simply not built for such specs.”

If your site is getting bigger and bigger you should think of disabling Relevanssi.

+1, I love it too but Divi seems not to be friendly with her, particularly the page builder. Notwithstanding, I kept alerting the developer whenever an update is released. Shortcode Ultimate is a great plugin but I’m afraid when Divi 2.0 comes out if it will still be necessary to use it. 🙂

Just started with WordPress two months ago… First theme I bought was way to difficult. Threw it away…. Started with ET and used Divi. I really love you guys. I have learned so much from the tutorials. It just works. Two beautiful sites running now and this article helps me further in no time. Great plug-ins . Saved loads of money buy doing it all myself…. And I will build some for friends/colleages. Being an artist I know how it should look, now I can also make it happen. Great. Thanks Kevin & the rest of ET.

Hi Kevin, more love here from me, this was an outstanding post. I do have a couple of ?s that I suspect others may have as well…
— I too have seen many recommendations that say to limit the # of plugins on your WP as much as possible… your response to the other comment is a bit confusing – you should limit the plugins you use? Or you don’t need to worry about the NUMBER of plugins? I would guess you could use whatever you want, but monitor the amount of resources they consume- is that the underlying issue?
— On the security subject, you mentioned 4 different plugins, some have unique features, some overlap. How many of these would a typical user choose? 1-2, all four?

You should not use any plugins that you do not use. So that means disabling statistic plugins if you are not checking the stats and widget plugins when you are not using the widgets. You need to take a step back with every plugin and ask yourself whether you need to use it.

A plugin is simply a series of functions. It is possible that one plugin could slow down your website more than having fifty activated. It all comes down to the plugin in question. It is prudent to test the speed of your website after every plugin you install to see if it does hurt your website’s performance.

I would just use one. I was tempted to just list one, however they are all equally as good in my eyes. They all enforce similar security measures, though they each do certain things that the others do not. I would just pick one and go with that 🙂

Good recommendation. Wordfence Security is a great security app too. I use it and it provides functions of three plugins from the above combined. Login locking, Force locking out bots or heavy users or lechers and many more.

I was just reading the other great plugins to consider, and after a recurring problem with Comprehensive Google Map Plugin I was happy to discover Intergeo Maps (). This is by far the best Google Maps plugin I have used.

Definitely have a look if you require more advanced editing capabilities for Google Maps.

I know it has been a few weeks since you originally posted this, but I haven’t had time to comment. I have a question I’ve been trying to find the answer for and I was hoping you might have some insight.

I’m considering investing in backupbuddy or updraftplus. They are similarly priced, but I can’t see a clear winner. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Also, I’ve heard some criticize anything back-up plugins besides vaultpress because theoretically a hacker could just mess with your plugin once they are in your site.

I’m still leaning towards backupbuddy or updraftplus for the economic advantages.

I’m considering the unlimited version of either plugin. Both come in just over $100 if you get a good price. I’m trying to figure out if there are any clear advantages to either one. I can keep you posted on my research if you’re curious.

Although If I had a really serious high traffic site I would probably consider vaultpress myself.

Awesome Article! I’ve been very impressed with your articles so far.
I know it has been a few weeks since you originally posted this, but I haven’t had time to comment. I have a question I’ve been trying to find the answer for and I was hoping you might have some insight.
I’m considering investing in backupbuddy or updraftplus. They are similarly priced, but I can’t see a clear winner. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
Also, I’ve heard some criticize anything back-up plugins besides vaultpress because theoretically a hacker could just mess with your plugin once they are in your site.
I’m still leaning towards backupbuddy or updraftplus for the economic advantages.

I know it has been a few weeks since you originally posted this, but I haven’t had time to comment. I have a question I’ve been trying to find the answer for and I was hoping you might have some insight.

I’m considering investing in backupbuddy or updraftplus. They are similarly priced, but I can’t see a clear winner. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Also, I’ve heard some criticize anything back-up plugins besides vaultpress because theoretically a hacker could just mess with your plugin once they are in your site.

I’m still leaning towards backupbuddy or updraftplus for the economic advantages.

Thanks for sharing this tools, Kevin! Like you I’ve been finding some good tools for my wordpress blog most especially on it’s spam and security. There are actually a lot of add-ons being offered but I really don’t which would really suit my blog site. Recently I’m in a dilemma with people who are visiting my site since I can’t sort them out if their purpose is to just visit or drop their spammy links. I’m a little bit tired of cleaning after the mess they do. Good thing I cam across this! =)

Hi Kevin! As an affiliate marketer, I really value wordpress widgets in how it helped my strategies in marketing online. It made me organize some of the stuff that I usually do online and it gave me less effort in stressing those spam threats in my blog. Thanks for this!

Very nice collection of plugins, unlike some other posts where almost half of them are not useful. You’ve included some of the basic plugins and categorized them as well. Thank you for your great work Kevin.

Hi, I’m using Divi on this site and really like it. Ever since the last update (and everything is up to date) the Page Builder will stop showing occasionally after I update the page. If I go into Jetpack and deactivate one of their modules – it does not matter which one – the Page Builder comes back. Have contacted Jetpack and they are stumped. Any clues here?

Thanks for this but would you know which is the best plugin to assist me in auto post sharing?

I publish content regularly onto my site and then have to manually share it to all my other social media sites like facebook, twitter, google+, linkedin, pinterest, stumbleupon, blogger, tumblr, digg, redit, to name a few.

It would save me a great deal of time if there was a plugin that would do all the sharing for me automatically once I post content.

Great list! Interesting that you wouldn’t edit it to include the new Monarch plugin. 🙂

Jorge Torres
January 22, 2015

Thanks for this useful post!. Widget Logic is a great plugin. I want to share with the public a plugin that have the same use but with more advanced options. The name is “Advanced Text Widget Pro” and can add your owns conditions can use multiple arguments, strings and arrays, custom CSS Ids, classes to any widget, obviously can use php code too.

Hi Kevin –
it’s very nice plugin, Every time an update for the Divi theme runs, I loose my Twitter widget that I use to display posts in my bottom banner. What is the best plug in for displaying Twitter posts now?
Thanks in advance.

Great list of wordpress plugins. As we all know that plugins are the real power of wordpress and every wordpress blogs are incomplete without plugins but choosing the right plugin for a blog is the toughest thing……Thanks a lot for the great list of wordpress plugins. 🙂

Hi Kevin –
it’s very nice plugin, Every time an update for the Divi theme runs, I feel that “Wordfence” does a better job than “BulletProof Security”. What is the best plug in for displaying Twitter posts now?
Thanks in advance.

Indeed a great list of some essential plugins. My clients every ask me to suggest some of the essential plugins for their website. So now it will be easy for me to suggest best plugins for their website.